Urban exploration (often shortened as urbex or UE) is the illegal examination of the normally unseen or off-limits parts of urban areas or industrial facilities. Explore the Dark Side of Berlin’s Secret 25,000 Underground Tunnels Never Meant to be Found.
A crucial display of balance of craft and patience in building layers of suspense under a horrific setting that goes beyond any urban explorer’s worst nightmare.
Variety
URBAN EXPLORER transcends the genre with the triple threat of incredible locations, a tour-de-force performance by Klaus Stiglmeier and a director who knows how to keenly build tension. It is one of our favorite horror discoveries of the year and Klaus Stiglmeier is hands-down one of our favorite performances.
We’ll follow him down any tunnel he goes…
Fantastic Fest
Fetscher shows that he has a great future in cinematography, managing to pull the viewer into a claustrophobic,
Nazi-haunted world. He also has a wicked sense of humor.
Austin 360
Ultimately satisfying.
Indie Wire
URBAN EXPLORER towers tall as one of this year’s most harrowing horror discoveries.
Mitch Davis
URBAN EXPLORER has been gaining momentum and popularity with audiences worldwide, and has now taken itself a step further by winning Screamfest.
The film played to sold out crowds in Berlin, Busan, Austin (Fantastic Fest) and Los Angeles and recently won three Screamfest awards including Best Film, Best Actor (Klaus Stiglmeir) and Best Makeup.
“We are thrilled with our Screamfest wins,” said director Andy Festcher. “We worked hard to make the film as authentic as possible so audiences would feel like they were underground with us. Over 80% of URBAN EXPLORER takes place in locations that have never been filmed before and that have been seen by only a very small percentage of people.”
Subterranean Berlin is still partially in ruins and all of the incredible underground bunkers in the film are authentic. Daredevil director Andy Fetscher was in fact arrested and put in jail for breaking into the forbidden underground and continuing to shoot without permit or permission.
URBAN EXPLORER is a horrifying and thrilling adventure that investigates 25,000 tunnels on 6 levels underneath Berlin with secrets that were never meant to see the light of day. When four young travelers sign-up for an underground adventure through a subterranean maze of Nazi secrets, they are unaware of the horror they’re about to encounter. The eager urban explorers meet their guide at a club in Berlin where they all exchange fake names just in case the police get involved; this underground exploration isn’t exactly legal.
Through a door in the basement of the club they embark on their adventure, eager to explore a place few have seen. They soon realize, however, they are not alone in the tunnels. Not only are they in a physically dangerous, decaying location but they are also in the heart of Nazism, the unspoken shame of the city. The government has sealed off the area to keep Neo-Nazis from building shrines.
When the urban explorers become lost, confused, frightened and helpless, an eccentric old man (Stiglmeier) comes to their rescue. He guides them to safety, feeds them, and bandages their wounds. All seems well at first, but percolating just below the surface are rumblings that this stranger may not in fact be their savior. He might be the absolute last person on earth they would like to be with in an underground bunker.
Will they remember the way back to civilization, and if they do, will they be able to escape?
Cast includes Nathalie Kelley, Nick Eversman and Klaus Stiglmeier. Directed by Andy Fetscher.
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For more information on URBAN EXPLORER please visit: http://www.urbanexplorer-themovie.com/
